14.29: Field Research
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard So, you're going to go someplace and learn something you can't learn in any other way. Maybe it's location research for setting. Maybe you're...
21 Jul 201919min
14.28: Warfare and Weaponry
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mahtab How do you write about warfare in your stories when you've never fought in a war? How do you describe brilliant tactics when you're completely untrained i...
14 Jul 201918min
14.27: Natural Setting as Conflict
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard In this episode we stories with the "Person-vs-Setting" structure. These are stories where nature fills the role of antagonist, and may also be wh...
7 Jul 201919min
14.26: Lessons from Aristotle, with Rob Kimbro
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, and Dan, with special guest Rob Kimbro Rob Kimbro joins us this week to talk about Aristotle's elements of tragedy, and how they might be applied to our writing. ...
30 Jun 201917min
14.25: Choosing Your Agent
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, Dan, and DongWon Guest-host Dongwon Song joined us at WXR 2018 as an instructor, and gave great advice regarding the business side of working as an author. In this...
23 Jun 201922min
14.24: Political Intrigue
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard Political Intrigue stories are less about "politics" (as colloquially defined by pop culture) and more about mysteries. Per Mary Robinette, t...
16 Jun 201917min
14.23: Governments Large and Small
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mahtab What kinds of governmental systems do you live within? What kinds do you implement? Answering these questions can help you with the worldbuilding of polit...
9 Jun 201918min
14.22: Characters out of Their Depth
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard Sherlock Holmes has his Watson for a reason. Readers need a character to whom some things must be explained. In this episode we talk about how we ...
2 Jun 201917min
